Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-22
MINE EXPLOSION.
Three Lives Lost by an Explosion
in q Missouri Pacific Nine at
Fleming, Kan.
Eight Men Killed In New Brunswick
by Snow Pillow AccideRt-Other
Railroad Accidents.

/
An Aged Couple Burned Collapse Of q
Building -Severs Storm Off Massa-
chusetts.
| FLEMING. Kan, Dec. lathe mine In
which the deadly explosion occurred SAT-
urday afternoon IS owned BY tho Missouri
Pacific Railway Company and is known US
'tNo g." 1t is located one mile north Of
the Fleming depot. Sixty-two miners had
| just assembled from the shaft, q number of
them having just reached the top, when u
terrific explosion occurred, hurting three
men into eternity and demolishlng por-
ton Of the shaft The names Of the unfor-
tunate men are William Hunter, aged forty.
! five years; John Edwards, aged twenty-six
years, aud William Reed, aged twenty
three years. Hunter was q married man,
whose home is at Elk creek, Mo. Edwards
was also married and left u wife and two
children, who live here, and Reed is q sin.
gle man, whose parents live In Weir City,
! Kan.
| The explosion was caused by an over
charge of powder in the blast. The minc
being very dry the flame ignited the smoke
and coal dust, which, driven along the air.
ways By the force of the blast, conveyed
| fire to the powder in the mine, which, in
connection with the spontaneous cOmbus-
ton Of the smoke and coal dust, resulted
so disastrously.
The escape of the majority of the men
employed in the mine is regarded as mirac-
| ulous. Being the third Saturday IN the
month it was pay day. and after making
blast about twelve O'clock the miners sus-
pended work for the day. The three un-
fortunate men happened to be behind with
their work and knowing they would not
have to return decided to work few min
utes overtime and consequently did not
make their blast until The other miners
were out Of the shaft.
This is said to be the most disastrous ex-
plosion that ever occurred in this district.
A similar explosion is reported to have
taken place At Scammonville, Kan, Satur-
day at Keith & Perry's mine No. 9 in which
three men were seriously bruised, but no
one was killed.
EIGHT MEN KILLED.
BATHURST, N. B., Dec. 19-While tho
train Oh the northern division of the Inter-
colonial railroad, which left Caraquette at
ton, in charge Of Conductor Daniel Kear-
ney and Driver Michael Lanigan, WAS
near Mcintosh Cove bridge, three miles
west of Caraquette, the trainmen noticed
heavy drifts Of snow ON the west
side Of the bridge. The train consisted
Of one passenger car, an engine and a snow
plow. Eight section men were aboard for
the purpose of assisting in clearing tho
road Of the snow which fell in Fridays
storm. The passenger car was on the left
side of the bridge. The section men, the
conductor Brakeman London, q young man
named Frank Miller, driver Lanigan and
fireman Boucher. thirteen persons in all,
were on the engine and started, but when
they got on the bridge the pillow and engine
left the track and fell into the river Only
five men were found; the rest, eight III
number, being pinned down under the en-
CINE, which was lying bottom up in the
river. The train was cunning slowly
at the time, as they had plenty of
time when they got over the bridge
to get a run at the drift. The fol-
lowing is a list of the killed: Con-
ductor kearney, OF Douglastown; Driver
Lanigan, of Bathurst; Felix Boucher,
fireman, Of Bathurst; Joseph Vienne, Sec
tionman, OF Caraquette; John Carney, Ed
ward Pinet and Frank Miller, OF Bathurst.
Sectionmen d. Patterson, Corrnier, Full
iarn and f. Hackey escaped. as did also
Brakeman London, who jumped through
the cab window. They are I'LL more or less
injured, but no ono was fatally hurt. AS
soon az the news reached Bathurst Drs.
Meahan and Bishop were sent to the scene
and by noon yesterday all the bodies had
been recovered
A COLLAPSED BUILDING.
LAFAYETTE Ind, Dec 19-At eleven
o'clock Saturday morning the floor of the
third story of G. w. Pierce q Co.'s whole
sale grocery house gave way under a heavy
weight of goods, carrying with it u part Of
the second and first floors into the cellar
Samuel Thompson and Harry Leach, two
employees on the third floor, came through
with the falling mass and Thompson was
almost instantly killed and Leach seriously
injured. The loss will be about $4,000, q
large amount of teas and other fine grocc-
ries being totally destroyed.
COLLISION ON THE FITCHBURG.
BOsroN, Dec. 19.-At about eight o'clock
Saturday morning when the east bound cx-
press freight train on the Fitchburg rail-
road, consisting of thirty-slx cars, reached
Lttleton, it coliided with the engine Of a
gravel tram GlaC was drawing OUT from u
siding. The engine and four cars OF the
express train were thrown from The track,
the former being demolished and the latter
burned. Michael Mack, a brakeman on the
express, was 50 badly burned that he died
within an hour, and Fireman Morse was
quite badly hurt
BURNED TO DEATH.
BUFFALO, Dec. ia special dispatch
from Hamburg, Erie County, says George
Baucrli and wife, aged sixty-One and fifty
eight respectively, were burned to death
early this morning. Their house burned
and the couple were too intirm to make
their escape.
TWO RAILROAD MEN KILLED.
THOMPSON FALLS NJ. T., Dec. ia COL
lision between two freight trains occurred
here to-day due to disobedience of orders
ON the part OF Conductor Copeland. Both
engines and twelve freight cars were
wrecked and two fremen killed.
STORM OFF MASSACHUSETTS.
BosToN, Dec. l9-Saturday nights storm
was very severe along the coast. Reports
of minor damage to shipping are coming
III, and it is feared that more serious loss
may be reported later. There is still sti6
gale of wind.
"A writer in II November magazine
asks: Are the lower animals approach
ing man?' Some of the lower animals
have freouently apprOachcd bows in